CVE-2011-2198

The "insert-blank-characters" capability in caps.c in gnome-terminal (vte) before 0.28.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption and crash) via a crafted file, as demonstrated by a file containing the string "33[100000000000000000@".

Date published : 2014-05-21

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629688